CVN-79 Navy's newest carrier yet-to-be named. What SHOULD it be named?

[Dennis Donovan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVN-79

As it stands, there's several names proposed for the Navy's newest carrier, scheduled to have its keel laid in 2012. Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-AZ) has proposed naming her the USS Arizona, after the the battleship and war grave USS Arizona. Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) is proposing naming it USS Barry Goldwater, after the late Senator from Arizona. There's an online petition that proposes naming it USS Enterprise (the present USS Enterprise is scheduled to be decommissioned by the time the new carrier becomes operational).

I'd like to see her named after JFK (the USS ex-John F Kennedy was decommissioned in 2007) or FDR (the carrier USS ex-Franklin D Roosevelt was decommissioned in 1977. An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is named after both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt).

[lpbk2713]

1. "Good Ship Lollypop" ?

:shrug:

[Ikonoklast]

2. USS Enterprise.

Goes without saying, there should ALWAYS be a USS Enterprise on active duty.

Period.

[patrick t. cakes]

7. apt name...

for a toy of out of control capitalism.

[Ikonoklast]

29. Rough men stand ready to defend your freedom.

Like it or not.

[patrick t. cakes]

39. I'm on a college campus...

I've seen these pimple faced "rough men."

I'm not a capitalist. They're defending nothing of mine.

[Ikonoklast]

41. Then you deny reality.

If you are on a college campus, you are currently enjoying one of those freedoms you so callously belittle, earned by the blood of those willing to fight for them.


You may believe yourself aloof from our economic system, all the while participating in it; even against your will, you benefit from it.

[patrick t. cakes]

44. you invoke reality...

laughable.
Soldiers don't die in resource wars for me to indebt myself (most recently through exorbitant and parasitic student loans) to a failed economic system.

Go back to your Time-Life series on war, relish in your reality.

[Ikonoklast]

50. You willingly participate in an economic system you revile.

In order to attain the things which you desire.

How...hypocritical.


Go back to your latte, Starbucks Revolutionary.

[patrick t. cakes]

55. Locally owned cafes for me, thanks.

And I don't desire too much in truth. I desire an education; sad the price one has to pay to achieve that. And to my understanding it wasn't always that way.

I willingly participate in a system I "revile" in the hopes of changing that failed system.
Why would I support a war machine and nation that currently doesn't have the interest of the people as its concern? Or the majority at any rate.

I have no sympathy for volunteers who willingly sign up to protect the power elite, which is the current reality of things.

(But coffee sounds good right now. Thanks for the idea, grandpa!)


:hi:

[krispos42]

74. No, they are.

Unfortunately, when they're not actively defending us and ours, they're ordered to go defend the interests of Big Business.

[Bigmack]

104. Ikonoklast...

In my youth I was one of those rough men.

I served this country for four years and killed people for this country.

Nothing I did..... nothing I did protected the freedom of any American.

Our troops in Afghanistan are doing nothing to protect our freedom.

Our troops in Iraq are doing nothing to protect our freedom.

Our troops stationed in Japan or Germany or England or any of the others is protecting our freedom.

If you've been in combat, you know the only thing you're fighting for is your squad/platoon.

We have to get over the idea that a military presence all over the world and wars against darker people will somehow protect our freedom.

We're losing our freedom at home faster than any enemy could wish for. We're losing our economic freedom, and that limits our other freedoms. We can speak and assemble and petition all we want, but nobody listens to the serfs.

[Erose999]

111. Great post. Somebody needed to say it.

[Bandit]

113. From what ?

A bunch of people living in caves on the other side of the world. Why are Americans such cowards? I suspect you are one that believes every household should have a dozen guns as well..:shrug:

[Confusious]

89. Never watched an episode of Star Trek? nt

[LanternWaste]

121. I imagine with zero military...

Then we may imagine that with zero military, the U.S. would maintain a long-term, viable existence with no threat that could not otherwise be addressed, yes...?

[Agent William]

3. HMS Ark Royal....or....

USS William Jefferson Clinton.

Either one is acceptable. lol

[MindPilot]

4. I think they should start naming carriers after the shuttles

CVN 79 should be Challenger.

[ewagner]

5. I oppose Goldwater

because Barry was an Air Force General...and heavy into the Strategic Air Command (SAC) not the Navy...

FDR supported the Navy and my Father's ashes we spread at sea from the old FDR.

[Poll_Blind]

6. USS Freedomizer, USS In God's Name, USS Texa-Chev-Exx

PB

[Safetykitten]

8. The Progressive

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. Lease the naming rights. USS Pepsico has a nice ring.

[Citizen Worker]

20. How about the USS McDonald's or USS Mickey D since the modern period of the US began with the

founding of McDonald's?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. Let the bidding begin!

[yourout]

40. I bet Subway would sponser our subs.

[Wilms]

10. USS Empire n/t

[WillyT]

11. Other... Slight Variation...

USS Taxpayer

:shrug:

[Brickbat]

12. USS This Could Have Paid For A Thousand Schools

Or, you know, something like that.

[Iggo]

16. There ya go.

:thumbsup:

[patrick t. cakes]

61. +1000

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. U$$ Sacred Cow

[Exilednight]

14. USS Your Social Security Fund Is Paying For My New War Ship

[Iggo]

17. Excellent choice!

:thumbsup:

[Jamastiene]

46. That is even better than some of the choices in the poll,

which were good too.

[Johonny]

102. +1

[Iggo]

15. USS Only Half The Value Of The Average NFL Franchise!

"Watch them Dallas Cowboys on your TV..."

[DefenseLawyer]

18. USS Rapture

It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine).

[Fuzz]

19. The Situation

[Codeine]

23. Win. nt

[Safetykitten]

25. Agree. Winner there.

[Historic NY]

22. What no Clinton?....

I always those it was meaningless to name ships after a living POTUS.

[lpbk2713]

27. The rethuglicans changed that policy when they owned the government.

So that they could name one after Saint Runny of RayGun.

[Angry Dragon]

45. Put the name up for auction

Corporations want to buy everything so let them bid on the name.......


It could be the USS Kock Brothers


USS AT&T


USS Goldman-Saks

the names are endless

[slackmaster]

24. I was going to suggest USS Eisenhower, but that's already taken by CVN-69

[Ikonoklast]

30. I got to walk the deck of the Ike.

Big.

Bigger than you think a big ship is big.

[madamesilverspurs]

26. Constitution II

Clearly more than just a piece of paper. . .


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[backscatter712]

28. I thought they couldn't name another ship the Arizona.

The USS Arizona, as in the ship sunk at Pearl Harbor, was never decommissioned, IIRC.

[Confusious]

87. The arizona is still on the rolls as active duty

So they can't name another ship Arizona.

You are correct.

[old mark]

31. Other- The USS Wink Martindale...Or the USS Alex Trebeck...

the names alone are enough to strike terror in any foe!

mark

[msongs]

32. Obsolete? nt

[atreides1]

33. Other

U.S.S. Raytheon, might as well start naming them correctly.

[PCIntern]

34. USS Rush Limpballs or USS Glenn Pecker n/t

[LiberalFighter]

35. Bush Sucks

[grahamhgreen]

36. USS "Union Worker"

[Marr]

37. The Exxon Bang Bang

[deaniac21]

38. USS Dennis Kucinich

[Ikonoklast]

51. OK, that was funny.

I wonder if DK would allow that to ever happen?

It is a great honor, after all, but...

[deaniac21]

62. It could be an aircraft carrier that travels the world to feed flowers

to ponies.

[Cleita]

42. There Goes My Universal Health Care. n/t

[Bozita]

43. USS Empire Decaying From Within

[AngryAmish]

47. USS Arnold Palmer

Next generation should all be named after champion golfers. Bobby Jones, Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, etc.

[alfredo]

48. USS Flounder

[Canuckistanian]

49. USS Jimmy Carter

After all, he was a Navy man, wasn't he?

[BlueIris]

53. +1.

Wish I'd thought of that.

[Dennis Donovan]

54. There's already a USS Jimmy Carter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)

USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), the third and last Seawolf-class submarine, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for former President Jimmy Carter, who served in the United States Navy as a Communications Officer, Sonar Officer, Electronics Officer, Weapons Officer, and Supply Officer while on board the USS Pomfret (SS-391).<1> Jimmy Carter is one of the few ships of the United States Navy (and only the third submarine) to have been named for a person who was alive at the time of the ship's naming, and the first submarine to be named for a living former president; Jimmy Carter is the only U.S. President to qualify in submarines.

[Canuckistanian]

85. Thanks for the info

Although a submarine naming is not as prestigious as a carrier, IMO.

Hell, If GHWB can get a carrier named after him, why not Carter?

[WildEyedLiberal]

95. It's because Carter was a submarine sailor

So it's fitting. GHWB, though a crappy president, did at least fly carrier-based naval aircraft. The one that really galls me is the USS Ronald Reagan, which sadly is a carrier and not a garbage scow.

[Arugula Latte]

52. USS Military-Industrial Complex

[IDemo]

56. The Entitlement

for the MIC, that is.

[PfcHammer]

57. SS Minnow

:)

[BOHICA12]

58. USS Daniel V Gallery

.... commander of the USS Guadalcanal Task-force that capture the U505. Early US Naval Aviator and a most excellent author.

[AsahinaKimi]

59. I was hoping for USS INDEPENDENCE however

That name has now been taken ..

[Starry Messenger]

60. The USS Our Children's Education

The USS War on the Poor, USS Making The World Safe for Capitalism...

[warren pease]

63. USS Chickenhawk n/t

[Modern_Matthew]

64. USS Imperialism. nt

[Swede]

65. The USS Mastercard.

[itsrobert]

66. Has the USS Sarah Palin been nominated yet?

And it never will be.

[Better Believe It]

67. USS War is Peace

[Strelnikov_]

68. USS Oil Grab n/t

[keroro gunsou]

69. i voted other

the uss Grace Murray Hopper after the first female rear admiral....

[jmowreader]

70. USS Smedley D. Butler

It would be the second ship named for him. The first is a destroyer that was decommissioned in the 1940s.

Smedley Butler won two Medals of Honor and saved the United States from Prescott Bush. That in itself should be enough to justify naming a carrier after him.

In reality, anything but USS George W. Bush would be okay. HIS name belongs on the side of a garbage barge.

[lumberjack_jeff]

99. GMTA. n/t

[DotGone]

71. USS We Come In Peace And You Go In Pieces

[SoCalDem]

72. The Love Boat

[jmowreader]

120. They already have one of those

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (why the FUCK they would name an AIRCRAFT CARRIER after a soldier is beyond me--it would have been more fitting to name the M109A6 howitzer after him, but I digress) earned the nickname "The Love Boat" after the Gulf War of 1991, when 15 female hands got pregnant aboard the ship and had to be reassigned to shore duty.

[ReggieVeggie]

73. USS Abbie Hoffman

[Junkdrawer]

75. USS Security Council

Seems that's where the war making powers reside... :sarcasm:

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

76. Why has no one mentioned the following:

USS Viagra
USS Mine-is-bigger-than-yours
USS Jock-Strap
USS Big Dick


Seriously, aren't these big military toys all meant to make up for something lacking in the men that are normally in command of their use? (Read rich white R's)

[krispos42]

77. USS Enterprise

There have been 8 in the Fleet so far, including two that fought during the Revolutionary War and the famous one that fought during World War Two.


This is a name that should NOT be retired!

[Volaris]

117. agreed

[rug]

78. USS Nobel Peace Prize

[JVS]

79. USS Austerity for Social Programs

[roamer65]

80. USS Richard M Nixon.

Nickname it the "Big Dick".

Seriously, there should always be a USS Enterprise.

[Blue-Jay]

81. USS Asian Woodcutter

(I know you're still upset, crazio... *kiss kiss*) :D

[annabanana]

82. "I paid a gazillions dollars and all I got was this lousy carrier". . n/t

[Sherman A1]

83. Problem with the name Arizona is that the ship is still

on the navy register to my knowledge and the name is not available nor will it be.

I think naming it after any of the previous CV's would be fitting. USS America might be nice, Kitty Hawk, Enterprise is good, Hornet, Yorktown, Saratoga, Langley, Wasp, Midway, Coral Sea,etc.

[kenny blankenship]

84. Why don't we just let the Chinese name it?

They'll be repossessing it soon enough.

[MrSlayer]

86. USS Smedley Butler

A true American hero whose story should be much better known.

[Bozita]

88. +1

[ReggieVeggie]

90. +2

:thumbsup:

[Ganja Ninja]

91. USS Your Retirement Fund.

[Autumn]

92. USS Goldman Sachs n/t

[nolabels]

93. I wish it would be named "USS THE END"

More waste on top of more waste, bigger is not better, bigger is just more of stupid

[Urban Prairie]

94. USS Quadrillion Dollar Debt (it will be aptly named when decommissioned)

USS Outsourced

USS Red Ink

[Urban Prairie]

96. USS Personal Responsibility, USS Imperialism

[lumberjack_jeff]

97. USS Smedley Butler. n/t

[FlyByNight]

98. USS Empire Enforcer

[n2doc]

100. USS Pork Barrel, or maybe USS Thanks, China! n/t

[opihimoimoi]

101. USS AL GORE...or.... USS JOHN KERRY...that would send the GOPers into frenzee

[lpbk2713]

118. USS Keith Olbermann

They would have a shit hemorrhage.



:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

119. LOL...that they would..... :o)

[blindpig]

103. Capitalism Uber Alles. n/t

[Ron Green]

105. USS Photo Opportunity.

Oh, wait...that was the "Lincoln," wasn't it?

[L0oniX]

106. USS Bankrupt.

[S_E_Fudd]

107. How about the ... USS US Grant...

Not only would it have a record number of Us and Ss in the name...

It would also have the added benefit of honoring the man most responsible for preserving the Union (other than Lincoln)...

[jmuniz]

108. USS America

Time to put one back in the fleet that's not named after some politician, no matter who they were.

[Initech]

109. USS Tony Montana

"Say hello to my little friend!!!!"

[Initech]

110. USS Freedom

[Erose999]

112. USS Bradley Manning

[Erose999]

114. Or the USS Capitalism Jesus Imperializer Damn Right I Take my Gun to Church

As suggested by Early Cuyler

[guitar man]

115. USS Hope-n-Change

:hide:

[Bombero1956]

116. USS Prius

The first carrier in the fleet that's a hybrid and it'll have a butt ugly back window.

[pa28]

122. USS Indefensible n/t

[RegieRocker]

123. USS WEOWE

So off to war we go.